SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Book Festival, Saratoga Springs Public Library, and Skidmore College present a SaratogaREADS! event featuring Dr. Andre M. Perry, in conversation with Dr. Amon Emeka, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the First Year Experience at Skidmore College.
Perry is Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, and author of “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities.”
Perry’s research focuses on race and structural inequality, education, and economic inclusion. Since 2013, Perry’s column on educational equity has appeared in the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news organization focused on producing in-depth education journalism. Perry also contributes to TheRoot.com and the Washington Post. Perry’s views, opinions and educational leadership have been featured on CNN, PBS, National Public Radio, The New Republic and NBC.
In “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities,” he takes readers on a tour of six black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued and provides an intimate look at the assets that should be of greater value to residents—and that can be if they demand it.
This online program takes place 5:30–7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16 and uses the Zoom livestreaming platform. It will require access to a computer, mobile device with the Zoom app installed, and/or a phone for audio-only access. Registration with an email is required in order to receive information on how to connect. The email will be sent three hours prior to the scheduled start time of the program. Register at: sspl.org.
